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From:   Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 11:32:53 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] riscv: Add vector ISA support
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Let's talk about libc abi for sigcontext and our cpu has the vector
features, so we need start the work to support stress-test.

I think it's the same to andes, because andes also announced the
vector processor. The linux and libc are only small part of vector
ISA, let's work together :)

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:45 AM Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guo,
>
> On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:52:15AM +0800, guoren@kernel.org wrote:
> > From: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
> >
> > The implementation follow the RISC-V "V" Vector Extension draft v0.8 with
> > 128bit-vlen and it's based on linux-5.5-rc4.
> >
>
> According to https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/22/2169, in which Paul has stated
> that "we plan to only accept patches for new modules or extensions that have
> been frozen or ratified by the RISC-V Foundation."
>
> Is v0.8 ratified enough for now?
>
>


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Best Regards
 Guo Ren

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